GUNTER SENFT: CURRICULUM VITAE Date of birth: 19.07.1952 Place of birth: Kaiserslautern Nationality: German Marital status: married to Barbara Senft Two children Address: Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics PB 310 6500 AH Nijmegen The Netherlands Tel.: (+31)-((0)24)-3521 911 (+31)-((0)24)-3521 274 Fax: (+31)-((0)24)-3521 300 e-mail: Gunter.Senftatmpi.nl Private address: Holthuisenbosch 1 D-47574 Goch Germany Tel.: (+49)-((0)2823) – 86612 Education: Abitur, Gymnasium am Rittersberg, Kaiserslautern, May 1971. 1971-1979 Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heidelberg (German and English Language and Literature); 1976 Wissenschaftliche Prüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (große Facultas). 1979-1982 Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Ph.-D. student). 1.03.1978 - 28.02.1981 Max-Planck-Society Ph.-D. fellowship, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (The Netherlands). February 1982 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil., "summa cum laude"), Johann-Wolfgang- Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. May 1992 Technische Universität Berlin, Habilitation (German qualification for lecturing): "General Linguistics". July 1994 Universität zu Köln, Umhabilitation “General Linguistics”. July 1998 Universität zu Köln, Extraordinary Professor for General Linguistics. Professional history: 1976-1978 research assistant, German Research Society (DFG)-Project "Heidelberg Research Project ‘Pidgin-German of Spanish and Italian Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany’" Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klein; 1.03.1978 - 28.02. 1981 Max-Planck-Society Ph.-D. fellowship, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (The Netherlands); 1.04.1981 - 30.09.1981 associate research fellow, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; 1.10.1981 - 30.09.1986 research fellow, DFG-Project "Ritual Communication on the Trobriand Islands", Prof. Dr. Irenäus Eibl- Eibesfeldt, Human Ethology Research Unit, MPI for Behavioural Physiology, Seewiesen; 1.10.1986 - 31.12.1988 postdoctoral research fellowship, Max-Planck-Society, Human Ethology Research Unit, Andechs; 1.01.1989 - 31.05.1990 postdoctoral research fellowship, German Research Society (DFG); 1.06.1990 - 31.01.1991 postdoctoral research fellowship, Max-Planck-Society, Human Ethology Research Unit, Andechs; 1.02.1991 - 31.01.2018 senior research fellow & senior investigator, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. 1.04.1999-30.09.2000 on leave from the MPI for Psycholinguistics to act as the stand-in for the chair of general linguistics at the Universität Bielefeld for the summer-semester 1999, the winter-semester 1999/2000, and the summer semester 2000 (= “Lehrstuhlvertretung”). Since 1.02.2018 retired affiliated researcher, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Pre-doctoral fellowships: 1971 - 1977, G.M.Pfaff-Gedächtnisstiftung Kaiserslautern, student-fellowship. 1.03.1978 - 28.02.1981 Ph.-D. fellowship, Max-Planck-Society, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, (The Netherlands). Field research: 1.09.1977 - 14.10.1977 participant observation in a factory in Kaiserslautern; July 1982 - December 1982 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; January 1983 - November 1983 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; May 1989 - August 1989 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; July 1992 - September 1992 Trobriand Islands Papua New Guinea; June & July 1993 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; August & September 1994 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; May & June 1995 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; May & June 1996 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; May & June 1997 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; August & September 1998 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; May & June 2001 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; June 2003 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; July & August 2004 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; June 2006 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; August & September 2008 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea; May & June 2012 Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. DFG-(German Research Society)-funded research projects: "The system of classificatory particles in Kilivila", research fellowship, including costs for field research, 1.01.1989 - 31.05.1990. "Serial verb constructions, event concenptualization and event-report in Austronesian and Papuan languages", project financing a student assistant (Alex Dukers) and a post-doc researcher (Dr. Miriam van Staden) for 2 years (1999-2000). Invited visiting research fellow: July 1982 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea; August 1989 Divine Word Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea; Oktober 1989 Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; July 1992 Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; November 2000, 7-day visit to Japan to present five invited talks in Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, sponsored by the Japan Foundation’s Foreign Researcher Exchange Programme; December 5th till December 18th, 2018, Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity a the National Chengchi University of Taiwan in Taipei, invited speaker for a series of 5 lectures on "Language and Cultural Subjectivity". Academic teaching: SS 1990 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar: "Languages with Classifiers", seminar: "Introduction to Field Linguistics"; WS 1990/91 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar: "Kilivila - an Austronesian Language"; seminar: "Etholinguistics"; WS 1993/94 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar: "Space and Spatial Reference in Various Languages and Cultures". SS 1994 Technische Universität Berlin, seminar and lecture: "Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics". WS 1995/96 Universität zu Köln, seminar: “Nominal Classification”. WS 1996/97 Universität zu Köln, seminar: “`Kölner Klüngel´ etc. - an Introduction to Lexical Semantics”. WS 1997/98 Universität zu Köln, seminar: “An Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics” WS 1997/98: Universität Heidelberg, seminar: “Theory and Practice of Anthropological Linguistics (for anthropologists)”. WS 1998/99: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Spatial Deixis. SS 1999: Universität Bielefeld, seminar (4 hours/week): Languages of the World; seminar: Typology – The Conceptualization of Space in Various Languages; seminar: An Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics. WS 1999/00: Universität Bielefeld, lecture (4 hours/week): Structure of Non-Indoeuropean Languages; seminar: Kilivila; seminar: Field Methods. SS 2000: Universität Bielefeld, seminar (4 hours/week): Languages of the World; seminar: Systems of Nominal Classification; seminar: Ritual Communication. WS 2000/01: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Serial Verb Constructions. WS 2001/02: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Human Ethology and Linguistics. WS 2002/03: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Endangered Languages. WS 2003/04: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Space Games. Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Nick Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. WS 2004/05: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Oceanic Languages. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. WS 2005/06: Universität zu Köln, seminar: What is a good reference grammar? Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. WS 2006/07: Universität zu Köln, seminar: Nominal Classification. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2008: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2009: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2010: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2011: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Asifa Majid, Nick Enfield, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2012: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Elisabeth Norcliffe, Asifa Majid, Kobin Kendrick, and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2013: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Elisabeth Norcliffe, Asifa Majid, Kobin Kendrick, Mark Dingemanse, Sean Roberts and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2014: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Elisabeth Norcliffe, Kobin Kendrick, Mark Dingemanse, Sean Roberts and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. November 19th, 2014: Invited master-class seminar: "Field Methods", School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester. 2015: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, seminar with Elisabeth Norcliffe, Mark Dingemanse, Kobin Kendrick, Sean Roberts and Stephen C. Levinson: Semantics and Pragmatics in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 2016: Japan Women's University, invited seminar for Post-Graduate Students on "Understanding Pragmatics", March 24th, 13.30 - 19.30. Ph.-D. guidance: 1.06.1993-30.09.1995: Giovanni Bennardo, A Computational Approach to Spatial Cognition: Representing Spatial Relationships in Tongan Language and Culture. Ph.D 1996, Urbana, Illinois. 1.05.1995-04.03.1997: